Royal Arch Geography

Tom Varner

April 23, 2020

•Blue Lodge and Royal Arch ritual makes many geographical references•Have you ever wondered where they are and what they look like?•We will start with Noah and travel chronologically with the patriarchs and Israelites as mentioned in the various degrees

Quick Map of the Middle East

Noah and the Patriarchs

Noah: The First Ark

“Mountains of Ararat”

Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Uz and Aram

Abram’s journey to the Land of Canaan

Abraham and Melchizedek at Salem (Jerusalem)

Moses and the Israelites

Moses, Midian, and Mount Horeb

12 Tribes of Ancient Israel

Ephraimites and Gilead (Gad)

Zeredatha

Hill Country of Israel

Hill Country of Israel

Joppa (Jaffa)

Joppa 1845

Joppa Now

Gebal (Byblos) and Phoenicia

The Temple of Solomon

Mount Moriah

Abraham and Isaac

David and the Destroying Angel

Old City of Jerusalem

Quarries of Solomon in Jerusalem

Timbers felled and prepared in the forests of Lebanon

Conveyed on floats by sea to Joppa

Clay grounds of Jordan between Succoth and Zeredatha

Zeredatha

King Solomon’s Temple

Enoch’s Vertical Arches

Solomon’s Secret Vault

Division of the Kingdom after Solomon

Destruction of the Temple

The Exile to and Return from Babylon

The Chaldean Empire

Exile to Babylon

The Persian Empire

Ancient Babylon

Perth

Accad (Akkad)

Syrian Desert

Ancient Tadmor (Tadmah), now Palmyra

Riblah

Zeredatha

Damascus

Cedar Forests of Lebanon

Riblah

Zeredatha

Map of Ancient Jerusalem

View of Jerusalem from north in 1855

Modern view of Jerusalem from south